Joel P. Varner

Associate Transactional

Chicago +1 312 862 3724

Joel P. Varner

Overview

Joel Varner is a corporate associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Joel’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and investment fund formation.

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its acquisition of PowerTeam Services 

GTCR in its acquisition of EaglePicher Technologies

Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of Solis Mammography

Thoma Bravo in its acquisition of CRIF Lending Solutions

Belcan, an AE Industrial Partners portfolio company, in its acquisition of Allegiant International 

Flexpoint Ford in its sale of CFGI Holdings to The Carlyle Group

Landmark Partners in the closing of its $5.4 billion Landmark Equity Partners XVI

Summer Associate, Squire Patton Boggs LLP

Student Attorney, Michigan Law Transactional Clinic

Law Clerk, KeyBank: Corporate Compliance

Paralegal, Richards & Associates

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2017Illinois

Education

  • University of Michigan Law SchoolJ.D.2017

    Production Editor, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review

  • University of CincinnatiB.S., Criminal Justicesumma cum laude2014